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Thursday, July 2, 2020

Difference between a Pandemic and Epidemic?

Welcome to another post on my blog. Today, in Chemicals and Chaos, I move on from independent tasks to the 'Black Death'. We had an introduction explaining some keywords relating to the 'Black Death'; Epidemic, Plague and Outbreak.

After that, we were given a question to answer, 'What is the difference between a Pandemic and an Epidemic?'

A pandemic is a disease which is spread all over the world, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas an epidemic is a disease which is spread in a community, area or a country, such as the West African Ebola virus epidemic in 2013-2016.
Epidemic vs Pandemic | Technology Networks
Epidemic vs Pandemic | Technology Networks
Credit: https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/articles/epidemic-vs-pandemic-323471